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Noel Pela Primeira Vez

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If you really, really, really love Noel Rosa - and you should, because he's Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and a few others all wrapped up in one small tubercular 28 year old guy who lived briefly and brilliantly in Rio café and samba society in the 30s - then you need this collection. All of his songs are here, and many of them are worth hearing in the original recordings. But - and here's the problem - it's a lot of money for some recordings from the 30s. If you're just coming to Noel Rosa, try the Lumiere songbook which gives a great intro to his work.

However, if you really, really love Noel Rosa, then you gotta own this one. All kinds of music you never heard before - and the lyrics are consistently funny, sad, romantic, witty; the music is consistently fine. Sometime, someone outside Brasil will find out about Noel Rosa.

Noel Rosa influenced almost everything, not only samba, that comes after him in brazilian music. In one way or another...

One of the very first music popular stars of Brazil. Like Noel, this box is genius!

This is a stunning cultural treasure, fourteen CDs worth of classic Brazilian "samba-cancao" (song sambas) written by composer Noel Rosa, one of the key songwriters of the 1930s samba scene. A beautiful, collossal collection of super-fun Brazilian oldies... Highly recommended!